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World Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Christian D. Schunn is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a significant focus on Education and Developmental and Educational Psychology. The scientist's work also touches on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research, and Computer Science Applications.

Their research covers a range of key topics, including:

  • Student Assessment and Feedback
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Evaluation of Teaching Practices
  • Reflective Practices in Education
  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Career Development and Diversity
  • Online Learning and Analytics

Christian D. Schunn has contributed to several academic journals, frequently publishing in:

  • Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
  • International Journal of STEM Education
  • Studies In Educational Evaluation
  • Contemporary Educational Psychology
  • Physical Review Physics Education Research

Recent papers by this researcher include:

  • "Damage caused by women's lower self-efficacy on physics learning," 2020, Physical Review Physics Education Research
  • "The Effects of Providing and Receiving Peer Feedback on Writing Performance and Learning of Secondary School Students," 2020, American Educational Research Journal
  • "When peers agree, do students listen? The central role of feedback quality and feedback frequency in determining uptake of feedback," 2020, Contemporary Educational Psychology
  • "Passive, active, and constructive engagement with peer feedback: A revised model of learning from peer feedback," 2023, Contemporary Educational Psychology
  • "What aspects of online peer feedback robustly predict growth in students' task performance?", 2021, Computers in Human Behavior

The scientist's frequent collaborators include Yong Wu, Zheng Zong, Yanqing Wang, Chandralekha Singh, and Omid Noroozi, with multiple coauthored works in the domains explored.

Christian D. Schunn was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • The nature of feedback: how different types of peer feedback affect writing performance

    Melissa M. Nelson;Christian D. Schunn

  • Scaffolded writing and rewriting in the discipline: A web-based reciprocal peer review system

    Kwangsu Cho;Christian D. Schunn

  • Are Badges Useful in Education?: It Depends upon the Type of Badge and Expertise of Learner.

    Samuel Abramovich;Christian Schunn;Ross Mitsuo Higashi

  • The relationship of analogical distance to analogical function and preinventive structure: the case of engineering design.

    Bo T. Christensen;Christian D. Schunn

  • Validity and reliability of scaffolded peer assessment of writing from instructor and student perspectives

    Kwangsu Cho;Christian D. Schunn;Roy W. Wilson

  • A Study of Design Fixation, Its Mitigation and Perception in Engineering Design Faculty

    J. S. Linsey;I. Tseng;K. Fu;J. Cagan

  • Students' perceptions about peer assessment for writing: Their origin and impact on revision work

    Julia H. Kaufman;Christian D. Schunn

  • Bringing Engineering Design into High School Science Classrooms: The Heating/Cooling Unit

    Xornam S. Apedoe;Birdy Reynolds;Michelle R. Ellefson;Christian D. Schunn

  • A Mechanistic Account of the Mirror Effect for Word Frequency: A Computational Model of Remember-Know Judgments in a Continuous Recognition Paradigm

    Lynne M. Reder;Adisack Nhouyvanisvong;Christian D. Schunn;Michael S. Ayers

  • Metacognition does not imply awareness: Strategy choice is governed by implicit learning and memory

    Lynne M. Reder;Christian D. Schunn

  • On the benefits and pitfalls of analogies for innovative design : Ideation performance based on analogical distance, commonness, and modality of examples

    Joel Chan;Katherine Fu;Christian D. Schunn;Jonathan Cagan

  • Learning Through Case Comparisons: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Louis Alfieri;Timothy J. Nokes-Malach;Christian D. Schunn

  • Commenting on Writing Typology and Perceived Helpfulness of Comments from Novice Peer Reviewers and Subject Matter Experts

    Kwangsu Cho;Christian D. Schunn;Davida Charney

  • Engagement and Achievements: A Case Study of Design-Based Learning in a Science Context.

    Yaron Doppelt;Matthew M. Mehalik;Christian D. Schunn;Eli Silk

  • THE MEANING OF "NEAR" AND "FAR": THE IMPACT OF STRUCTURING DESIGN DATABASES AND THE EFFECT OF DISTANCE OF ANALOGY ON DESIGN OUTPUT

    Katherine Fu;Joel Chan;Jonathan Cagan;Kenneth Kotovsky

  • Investigating the multidimensionality of engagement: Affective, behavioral, and cognitive engagement across science activities and contexts

    Adar Ben-Eliyahu;Debra Moore;Rena Dorph;Christian D. Schunn

  • The Generality/Specificity of Expertise in Scientific Reasoning

    Christian D. Schunn;John R. Anderson

  • The nature of science identity and its role as the driver of student choices.

    Paulette Vincent-Ruz;Christian D. Schunn

  • Integrating perceptual and cognitive modeling for adaptive and intelligent human-computer interaction

    Z. Duric;W.D. Gray;R. Heishman;Fayin Li

  • Female students with A’s have similar physics self-efficacy as male students with C’s in introductory courses: A cause for alarm?

    Emily M. Marshman;Z. Yasemin Kalender;Timothy Nokes-Malach;Christian Schunn

  • The Impact of an Engineering Design Curriculum on Science Reasoning in an Urban Setting

    Eli M. Silk;Christian D. Schunn;Mari Strand Cary

Frequent Co-Authors

Lynne M. Reder
Lynne M. Reder Carnegie Mellon University
Walter Schneider
Walter Schneider University of Pittsburgh
Julie A. Fiez
Julie A. Fiez University of Pittsburgh
David Klahr
David Klahr Carnegie Mellon University
Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal
Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal University of Pittsburgh
Gregory J. Feist
Gregory J. Feist San Jose State University
Axel Cleeremans
Axel Cleeremans Université Libre de Bruxelles
John R. Anderson
John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University
Morton Ann Gernsbacher
Morton Ann Gernsbacher University of Wisconsin–Madison
Melissa E. Libertus
Melissa E. Libertus University of Pittsburgh

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